i play ryzom and ctrl+numpad3 has the same effect as escape. this is not related to ryzom though, becuase xev shows that the XLookUpString for ctrl+numpad3 is a not printable character while for example ctrl+numpad9 is "9"

well you should be asking for support in #debian-next then, and as for here on stretch ctrl+numpad 3 work just like expected. What you are descibing is some keybinding program reacting to that key combo.

Hey all, I'm looking for advice/docs on what is the cause of some weird package manager behavior. I'm trying to install libsdl2-dev, and when i try to do so thru apt-get, it goes nuts and wants to remove init and friends (this is no good!)

Using aptitude to try to install the same package gives me a more sane-sounding solution that involves installing some new libs and upgrading a number of core system components (systemd and udev etc) from "now, oldstable" to "testing". I'm pretty savvy with linux, but don't really understand the significance of that. Is that a "safe" operation or is it going to screw up package management for my system?

This is not the first time I have had a similar problem, but usually it stems from me screwing around with my package source lists, but in this case I haven't touched any of that. I don't really understand how it's possible for the system to screw itself up when I'm just trying to install stable packages.

In order to troubleshoot your problem with apt-get, apt or aptitude we need ALL OF THE FOLLOWING information: 1. complete output of your apt-get/apt/aptitude run (including the command used) 2. output from "apt-cache policy pkg1 pkg2..." for ALL packages mentioned ANYWHERE in the problem, and 3. "apt-cache policy". Use http://paste.debian.net/ to provide us with this information. Also ask me about <localized errors>.

http://paste.debian.net/983136/ is aptitude's proposed solution. basically i just want to know if that is a safe operation or if it's going to screw my system up. I'd also be happy to understand how it gets screwed up along those lines in the first place...

so larger story, is the first time i tried to apt-get install libsdl2-dev, it told me that it depended on libibus-1.0-dev that was not going to be installed, so i manually installed that. i removed it again just now, and am back to getting this response: https://paste.debian.net/983142/

how did i end up not running only sid in the first place? i haven't touched by apt sources on this install (other than to add steam + chrome, but those shouldn't be affecting packages from the linux ecosystem...)

hey, sorry if this is a long shot but I have a setup virtualization using libvirtd and passing through an NVIDIA 1080. I have the system working with windows flawlessly. The issue is whenever I try to install debian, I copy the windows install virsh settings but debian locks up when selecting the installation mechanism

Hi. I just upgraded my gateway to jessie and squid doesn't work any more. I moved my custom config out of the way, purged the squid package and moved the cache out of the way. Reinstalled squid and it still hangs at startup with the default squid.conf. Any tips? I ran it under strace and I see it bind() to port 3128, but it never calls listen() on that socket. I see the pinger exiting, but I'm a little out of my depth.

and also, w.r.t. gksudo, it is also screwy in the way it "dims" the screen: i am running a minimalist window manager on two monitors, and when gksudo pops up, only the monitor on which the pop-up window is not located will dim

( Let's suppose that the nature of this bug is something relatively obscure: say that it's something like, if you hold down 5 keys on the keyboard for 10 seconds then drag the middle mouse button, the text entry widget gets a SEGV. (In fact, I'm not making this up: I saw this very bug once, years ago.) )

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